Platform Product Reliability at Etched

Department: Platform

Setup: On-site
Location: San Jose, California
Type: Full-time
Level: lead/mgmt
Posted: May 12, 2026

Description

Etched is hiring a Platform Product Reliability Engineer to own system-level reliability for AI servers, accelerator platforms, rack systems, and datacenter infrastructure. The role covers reliability strategy, qualification and stress-testing programs, failure analysis, reliability modeling, fleet telemetry, release readiness, and building a technical reliability organization. It requires a relevant advanced degree and at least five years of hardware-centric reliability experience, with a fully in-person team in San Jose, California.

Required Skills

Reliability strategy
Accelerated stress testing
Failure analysis
Weibull analysis
FMEA
Reliability modeling
Fleet telemetry
Root-cause analysis

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's, master's, or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or a related technical field
Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years of reliability engineering experience in hardware-centric organizations, including complex-system work
Experience leading reliability programs for AI accelerator or GPU-class compute systems, hyperscale or cloud server infrastructure, networking platforms, storage systems, or rack-scale infrastructure
Hands-on experience with FMEA, Weibull analysis, HALT/HASS, qualification planning, failure analysis, and reliability statistics and modeling
Experience driving cross-functional root-cause investigations in fast-moving hardware organizations
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with liquid-cooled systems, high-density power delivery, or thermal management for high-power AI infrastructure
Experience supporting hyperscale or cloud datacenter deployments, reliability commitments, and SLA management
Experience building a reliability organization from early stages
Familiarity with fleet telemetry, large-scale field reliability analytics, and proactive reliability management
Experience working with ODM or JDM partners in Taiwan or broader Asia, including NPI and on-site qualification
Background in high-speed digital systems, GPU compute platforms, or accelerator-based architectures
Translation Company Name: Etched

About Etched

Etched

AI hardware11-50

Etched is building a new category of AI hardware: frontier inference clusters, co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing methods for frontier models. Etched says it has co-designed with leading AI companies, cloud providers, and hyperscalers, and tested racks in representative data center deployments. The company says its first racks ship this summer and production has started to fulfill over $1B in customer contracts.

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